futurballa
@futurballa.bsky.social
Photographer, wine lover, retired software quality engineering manager at Adobe. All thoughts and musings are my own.
Glenn Close has grown up to be Cloris Leachman. Don’t get me wrong. This is a very good thing.
December 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Glenn Close has grown up to be Cloris Leachman. Don’t get me wrong. This is a very good thing.
Love this. I’ll be having a Kandinsky tree next year.
December 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Love this. I’ll be having a Kandinsky tree next year.
The Pope is literally holier than thou. Just saying.
December 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Pope is literally holier than thou. Just saying.
The annual listening to Alice’s Restaurant Massacree has commenced. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The annual listening to Alice’s Restaurant Massacree has commenced. Happy Thanksgiving!
The Thanksgiving wines have been chosen.
Birichino 2022 Riesling
Birichino 2022 Hic Svnt Dracons Rose
Tablas Creek 2018 Grenache
Desparada 2018 Nebbiolo Luna Matta Vineyard
Birichino 2022 Riesling
Birichino 2022 Hic Svnt Dracons Rose
Tablas Creek 2018 Grenache
Desparada 2018 Nebbiolo Luna Matta Vineyard
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The Thanksgiving wines have been chosen.
Birichino 2022 Riesling
Birichino 2022 Hic Svnt Dracons Rose
Tablas Creek 2018 Grenache
Desparada 2018 Nebbiolo Luna Matta Vineyard
Birichino 2022 Riesling
Birichino 2022 Hic Svnt Dracons Rose
Tablas Creek 2018 Grenache
Desparada 2018 Nebbiolo Luna Matta Vineyard
DUMBO Manhattan Bridge view
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
DUMBO Manhattan Bridge view
I can always count on @joshtpm.bsky.social to talk me off the ledge.
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A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win
I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I can always count on @joshtpm.bsky.social to talk me off the ledge.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
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I’m watching All the President’s Men. It all seems so quaint now.
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I’m watching All the President’s Men. It all seems so quaint now.
You and me both.
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You and me both.
It’s like having Tony Soprano run the government.
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It’s like having Tony Soprano run the government.
Here’s a piece of trivia I had long forgotten. Nicolas Rose was third DP on the 1967 film of Casino Royale.
September 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Here’s a piece of trivia I had long forgotten. Nicolas Rose was third DP on the 1967 film of Casino Royale.
Co-opting Rosh Hashanah for the rapture is just cultural appropriation.
September 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Co-opting Rosh Hashanah for the rapture is just cultural appropriation.
Currently reading Roger Zelazny’s A Night in a Lonesome October.
Can’t recommend it enough. Somehow this slipped through my radar. So glad to have discovered it.
Can’t recommend it enough. Somehow this slipped through my radar. So glad to have discovered it.
September 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Currently reading Roger Zelazny’s A Night in a Lonesome October.
Can’t recommend it enough. Somehow this slipped through my radar. So glad to have discovered it.
Can’t recommend it enough. Somehow this slipped through my radar. So glad to have discovered it.
New from Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno. Kind of moody, ambient, slow dance music I could see David Lynch using on a soundtrack. tidal.com/browse/track...
Brian Eno - Part Of Us
Listen to Part Of Us on your streaming service
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September 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New from Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno. Kind of moody, ambient, slow dance music I could see David Lynch using on a soundtrack. tidal.com/browse/track...
As a dweller by the bay, I am contractually obligated to hate the Dodgers. With that said, Mookie Betts is a mensch.
September 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
As a dweller by the bay, I am contractually obligated to hate the Dodgers. With that said, Mookie Betts is a mensch.
If anyone doesn’t think this Supreme Court won’t reverse themselves on these decisions that expanded the unitary executive when a Democrat is in office, is either naive, willfully ignorant or full of shit.
September 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If anyone doesn’t think this Supreme Court won’t reverse themselves on these decisions that expanded the unitary executive when a Democrat is in office, is either naive, willfully ignorant or full of shit.
You know what chaps my ass? People turning right into the left lane. Stay in your lane, people. Literally.
August 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
You know what chaps my ass? People turning right into the left lane. Stay in your lane, people. Literally.
We don’t need another hero.
August 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We don’t need another hero.
August 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM